Author: Macías, Cristóbal
Title: «Astrología, religión y escatología astral en el mundo antiguo: el testimonio de Cicerón y Macrobio»
Review/Collection: Veleia, 40
Year edition: 2023
Pages: 119-134
Keywords: Religion - Religione - Religion
Description: Greeks and Romans imagined different theological systems of eschatology. Among them, an afterlife associated with the stars stands out. These beliefs emerged within Pythagorean tradition, with possible oriental influences, and Platonism, Stoicism and Neoplatonism made their own. The belief in a transcendence linked to the stars developed greatly in the period between the 1st century BC and the end of Antiquity, as witnessed by the Ciceronian Somnium and the commentary that Macrobius elaborated on it, which both we will analyze in detail in this paper. This development, which is also attested by funerary epigraphy, was not unrelated to the growing interest in astrolatry, as a result of astrological divination, whose first outcomes were the cult of the Sol Inuictus and the popular mystery cults. These cults, with an increasing presence of astral elements, promised their followers a survival of the soul after death. [Author]
Works:
Link: https://addi.ehu.es/bitstream/handle/10810/61746/6422f798e8d7b.pdf?sequence=1&isAllowed=y
Author initials: Macías 2023
Title: «Astrología, religión y escatología astral en el mundo antiguo: el testimonio de Cicerón y Macrobio»
Review/Collection: Veleia, 40
Year edition: 2023
Pages: 119-134
Keywords: Religion - Religione - Religion
Description: Greeks and Romans imagined different theological systems of eschatology. Among them, an afterlife associated with the stars stands out. These beliefs emerged within Pythagorean tradition, with possible oriental influences, and Platonism, Stoicism and Neoplatonism made their own. The belief in a transcendence linked to the stars developed greatly in the period between the 1st century BC and the end of Antiquity, as witnessed by the Ciceronian Somnium and the commentary that Macrobius elaborated on it, which both we will analyze in detail in this paper. This development, which is also attested by funerary epigraphy, was not unrelated to the growing interest in astrolatry, as a result of astrological divination, whose first outcomes were the cult of the Sol Inuictus and the popular mystery cults. These cults, with an increasing presence of astral elements, promised their followers a survival of the soul after death. [Author]
Works:
Link: https://addi.ehu.es/bitstream/handle/10810/61746/6422f798e8d7b.pdf?sequence=1&isAllowed=y
Author initials: Macías 2023
